q - Overview

Corey Bertram

I build systems, teams, and occasionally small weird tools.

Most of the interesting work is not in public repos. This is the visible edge: experiments, side quests, old open source, and a few pointers elsewhere.

Things

• vesta - structured data -> Vestaboard messages (vestaboard.tools)
• brutal - async multi-network chat bot framework from my Netflix era
• django-simple-history - original creator of the Django model history library, now maintained by Django Commons
• magtag-home - low-power Adafruit MagTag home display for wifi qr codes, weather, home assistant, and more
• circuitpython-datadog - CircuitPython client for sending metrics to Datadog

Notes

• I like boring infrastructure that makes ambitious products possible.
• I care about product shape, how engineering teams work, and the parts of software that do not fit neatly in code.
• I have spent a lot of time around scale, failure modes, ecommerce, observability, political tech, and chaos engineering.

Talks

• Modern CTO: Making Ecommerce Smarter
• AI in Action
• Chaos Engineering at Datadog

Now

• Tinkering in public more than I used to.
• Trying to make more of the work visible.
• Looking for product ideas with sharp edges.

Elsewhere

• qr7.com has the more complete version.
• LinkedIn